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The American Jewish Press Association recently presented the Jacksonville Jewish News with a first-place award in excellence in overall graphic design. The Simon Rockower Awards, presented annually, recognize excellence in Jewish publications. The Jewish News is a publication of the Jewish Federation of Jacksonville. The Jewish News won the graphic design award by submitting three consecutive editions from 2010: February, March and April. Judging was based on front page, editorial pages, inside page advertising and editorial layout, feature pages, advertising design, headline and text typography, including standing heads and use of photographs and artwork. “Our Communications Department works hard every month to produce a quality newspaper for the Jacksonville Jewish community,” Federation Executive Director Alan Margolies said. “But the award is also a reflection of the quality of the content submitted by our community agencies, synagogues and schools. That extra effort they make each month in providing good stories and photos is evident in this award.” The Jewish Peoplehood Day program, which the Jewish Federation of Jacksonville led this January, won an award of excellence by the Jewish Agency for Israel. In a special ceremony that took place in a worldwide Partnership 2000 conference, the Israel Partnership was awarded with a certificate: “The Jewish Agency for Israel is proud to present the Hadera - Eiron Southeast Consortium Partnership Award of Excellence for the Jewish Peoplehood Day Program. This award is in recognition of the unique qualities and impact that this program has in its communities and on each individual life that it touches. We thank all
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Scenes from YLD Mission trip to Israel
Above: Susanart, an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee youth-at-risk art program. At right: before a gala meal at the Dead Sea. From left: Wiatt Bowers, Ben Marsh, Meryl Shareff and Nicole Sena
At the Western Wall, before Shabbat in Jerusalem
Machane Yehuda before Shabbat
Overlooking the ruins at Cesaerea
Meryl at the valley of the communities at yad vashem
PA pushes for U.N. recognition, despite calls for talks From The Israel Project
Palestinian Authority leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Saeb Erekat are pushing ahead with their diplomatic campaign for recognition of Palestinians statehood at the United Nations in September despite the Middle East Quartet’s repeated requests that they choose peace talks instead. Erekat said that the campaign will first seek recognition of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital and then try to gain membership of the United Nations as a full member state. He also told a London-based Arabic language newspaper that they would
proceed with the plan to seek full U.N. membership “even if the peace talks with Israel are revived before September,” The Jerusalem Post reported. Erekat called the initiative “massive” and added that it is “being spearheaded by Fatah parliamentary bloc leader Azzam Ahmad and Palestine People’s Party representative Bassam Salhi, who will travel to China to lobby support,” Israel’s Haaretz reported. They will likely raise the issue in the U.N.’s General Assembly rather than the U.N.’s Security Council because the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany and Italy oppose the Palestinian Authority’s
READ MORE IN PERSPECTIVES, p. 7
diplomatic maneuver. Israel contends that the diplomatic campaign is not in the interest of a permanent and stable two-state solution because borders between the West Bank and Israel and issues of water, refugees and shared infrastructure would remain unresolved. Israel cites improvements in the Palestinian economy and security as tangible outcomes of existing cooperation. The U.S.- and E.U.-recognized terror organization, Hamas, said it opposes the Palestinian Authority’s plan and said “it had not been consulted about it” - despite the fact that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority signed a reconciliation pact in May. “Hamas is a Foreign Terrorist Orga-
See U.N, p. 7